There’s a powerful podcast on the way that probes the untimely passing of a Chicago man with help from an unlikely narrator.
“Somebody” looks into the 2016 death of Courtney Copeland, a 22-year-old man who was fatally shot in the back outside a Chicago Police station.
Courtney’s own mother Shapearl Wells narrates the seven-part audio series that investigates her son’s passing. Over a three year span Wells joined forces with a team of journalists, Alison Flowers, who leads investigations at the Invisible Institute on the South Side of Chicago, and Billa Healy, an independent radio producer, to confront Chicago Police and challenge the city’s long-standing racial disparities.
Additionally, rapper and activist
Chance the Rapper lends music to the podcast in honor of Courtney his friend, and Chicago classmate.
The series is co-produced by Chicago-based journalism nonprofit Invisible Institute, Topic Studios, and The Intercept in association with Tenderfoot TV.
BOSSIP has an exclusive clip from “Somebody”. In it, Wells explains to Facebook Live that the city of Chicago won’t give her family answers about what happened the night Courtney was murdered.
